TOPIC

We are now beginning a new topic - Can We Make It? Reuse and Recycle. This is a technology and science based inquiry unit. Our focus will be on how we can reuse and recycle waste to help out the environment as well as the process of designing, making and evaluating products. We have a lot of ideas of what we would like to do: Reusing old white t-shirts to tie dye them and screen print environmental slogans, creating a recycled materials garden and reusing tubes, cans, rolls, bottles to make marble games. We are very excited about it.

Our big questions are: Why is recycling and reusing waste beneficial for the environment and people? and
Why is it important to design and build sustainable products?

Our Key Understandings are:
Materials can be reused in a vairety of ways to make a range of products
People make/create quality products by working through a series of steps in a process
Materials have qualities that make them better suited for certain products than others
There are a variety of other factors and considerations that influence how and why a products is made